Sydney Beier's "Reading to Horst" is a paean to possibility: an American woman living in Germany has a languorous encounter with a tourist who asks her to read aloud to him from Anaïs Nin's Little Birds. In Alison Tyler's "Four on the Floor," a pair of lovers hunt for and conquer other couples. And Elizabeth Coldwell's "Heat" describes the fierce affair between a barmaid and her brutish temporary boss: a man she doesn't even like but who sets her heart pounding.

Praise for the Best Women's Erotica series:

"Gets racier every year." —San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Women's sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises." —Libido

See which Cleis Press titles are nominated for awards this year, and see a complete list of the awards we have won for 2014 and 2013, including six Indepdenent Publisher Awards, and a Lambda Literary Award for Wild Girls, Wild Nights.

In celebration of Pride month, we kicked off a brand new project we called Out Writers. Join us—and a tide of queer voices—in celebrating the importance of LGBTQ writing on #OutWriters. Our own publisher Brenda Knight shares her story of starting at Cleis Press in the introduction to Best Gay Romance 2013.

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